I'm going to keep coming back to this.... I can't get it out of my mind. Upon first read, this reminded me of someone and my thoughts on him. How my heart is constantly asking that "are you there?" How he cares yet sees me as someone to be "helped", almost as a "duty" to check up on since I am quite younger than him....

but when I read the part about only coming to you when sad, I thought wow. That could be me too. There's just so much depth and conflict in those lines. Sometimes I come to him with my pain and sad so he knows I hurt, to see if he will beyond the "painted on smiles" and casual talk. To see if he'll care about the hard conversations.

Ahh, going to read once more ;)